Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Analysing 4.2 billion messages in a month will give you a good perspective on the levels of span around the world.
Websense summarises the results of its outsourced spam detection services into a short monthly newsletter. This month, they observe the highest-ever proportion to spam to total email (89.3%) with the majority of that spam (88.6%) containing an embedded URL.
Almost-gone are the days of the self-contained 419 (Nigerian) scam email!
Further, the summary observes that 3.5% of spam messages were some kind of phishing attack.
The final observation, discussed in a number of places, is that shortened URLs (from bit.ly etc) are both more prevalent and more likely to be used to obscure nefarious web sites.
David Bass
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